RI labor agency sides with Twin River workers on OT
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PROVIDENCE, RI -- The state Department of Labor and Training has ordered the Twin River slot parlor to give a group of its nonunion employees overtime pay for working Sundays, according to a decision released Thursday afternoon. The ruling affects about 60 employees who have various duties at the slot parlor in Lincoln, some of which they are assigned to do on Sundays. The workers, some of them security guards, first complained about not being paid overtime back in January 2009, but a decision on the issue had been held up for months after UTGR Inc., the company that operates Twin River, filed for bankruptcy. On Sept. 25, a judge in U.S. Bankruptcy Court freed the labor department to issue its ruling, which says the guards and others are due the overtime pay because the slot parlor offered pari-mutuel betting on races on Sundays. Twin River suspended live dog racing in August and stopped offering simulcast betting on Sundays in September. But it still owes the nonunion employees money for Sundays they worked in the past, the DLT said. 
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Look for 60 layoffs coing to a place near you. At least that is what I would do if I ran Twin River.
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This is Horse Pucky!
If a business is open 7-days a week, 24-hours a day, as is the case with Twin River's (Which I will not set foot in) then obviously they need to have 24-hour a day staffing..every day.
And, if that requires some employees (whom should be thankful that they have a job) to work.... whether it be weekends, graveyard shifts, whatever - and those shifts and hours are part of their 40-hour week, what the heck gives them the right to think that they deserve overtime, over what it is that their fellow employees, also working a 40-hour week are getting@
Again, this is "Horse Pucky and while this agency often makes proper and fair decisions for the average Joe on the street this one is but one more example of the pro-union, always pro-labor, anti-common sense decisions that are rendered by this agency!
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Just because "they should be happy to have a job", the slot parlor should be able to ignore State Law? What is wrong with you folks?
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